[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by speeder

To be fair, most black people would not have responded in the way that he did, either.

Absolutely - I could not agree more.

Originally Posted by speeder

Why can't he just be a young person who used extremely poor judgement, which seems to affect young white males as well?

Yes, it does affect young white - and Asian, Hispanic, Native American, etc. males as well. Absolutely. Except, well, it affects - at a level of deadly violence such as this - young black males at a rate six times higher than everyone else. Six times. How could anyone, when presented with those statistics, not demand answers?

Originally Posted by speeder

Why throw in all of the racial schit, which always seems like taking a victory lap for racists? Like, "See! Another one....goddamn..."

The "racial schitt" is purely of your construction. Your perception that anyone is somehow celebrating this is sick beyond words. No one is happy about this. The fact is that some of us are fed up enough to seek a worthwhile, dispassionate discussion about what has led to this, with the goal being to someday find some answers that can make it stop. It appears that others are more than happy to see it continue while they virtue signal and accuse others, who would like to make this stop, of "racism".

Originally Posted by speeder

All of the mass shooters seem to be white. They just released the report on the Borderline Bar shooting from 2019 in the Los Angeles area, sure sounds like a white guy who can't get laid with anger management issues and lots of guns. Which of course should give anyone Deja Vu:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-03/mass-shooting-suspect-likely-targeted-borderline-bar-on-college-night-because-of-his-hatred-of-students

Yes, I think we all know that the vast majority of mass shooters are white. I'm sorry, though, I don't think your "whataboutism" contributes in any meaningful way to a conversation regarding what to do about young black men turning to gun violence at such a tremendous rate. Finding an answer to white mass shooters is unlikely to keep the young black men in our inner cities from murdering one another at this ungodly rate. Nor is it likely to alter the culture that has convinced young men like Mr. Gray that shooting someone is an appropriate response in situations in which most of the rest of us would agree it is unwarranted. That's what we're discussing here. Maybe you could start a thread about white mass shooters, and we can discuss that as well. It's certainly a worthwhile topic.